Trip Cancellation - No Contingency Plans + Free Tickets for the Grand Palais in Paris
We flew to Prague last week and, in meeting the rep in the morning before the welcome dinner she said that the trip would probably be cancelled due to low water levels. By the next morning the trip was cancelled. This is because the boat could not get to us for the start in Regensburg. I always thought Tauck had contingency plans. In this case, - Romantic Capitals: Prague to Paris - they did not. There were only 57 of us for this trip that would accommodate 130 people. This was really disappointing and there were a fair amount of first (and probably last) timers to Tauck. In talking with one of the guides, I think she would have been really great and that we would have enjoyed this trip..
For those of us who had booked our own flights, we were on our own to make new flight arrangements. Everyone was on their own to figure out what to do - fly home, if staying in Europe, we needed to book hotels, trains, planes, etc.
Weather - during this heat wave it felt much hotter due to the cobblestones, stone buildings in Prague sucking up the heat. We came in a day early and with jet lag the next morning we walked to the Charles Bridge at 5:30AM. It was a great decision - no crowds. The one day we had on this tour, people left in the morning for a 3 hour walking tour but had to cut it short because of the heat - and the Charles Bridge was overrun with tourists. I think just a few people went on the afternoon tour (I also heard it was cancelled). We didn't go as we went to hear Aida at the opera house and it started early. Another woman on our tour also had tickets and so we shared a cab.
Free tickets - because they couldn't tell us if our Tauck insurance would cover us if we stayed in Europe, we came home. I have two tickets to the Matisse exhibit in Paris for July 1 with entry between 10am and 10:30. If anyone is going to be in Paris then I will be glad to send you our tickets. Also, if anyone is interested I have two nights - July 2nd and 3rd - at a luxurious hotel in Antwerp. I didn't get cancellation on it but the hotel has kindly said that I could have someone take my place.